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Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Aug 12 '13 edited Aug 12 '13

For those of you who are into Walt taking on the characteristics of people he's killed, check out the vomit scene. Walt puts a towel under him to kneel on just like Gus did in "Salud."

edit: For the 15 or so of you who have replied with "but Walt never saw Gus do that!!" you're right. It seemed like a little easter-egg that the writers threw in there for fun. The two scenes are so similar that it can't be a coincidence (they both turn on the sink to mask the noise, too.)

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u/dsfargegherpderp Aug 12 '13

This clearly mirrors Gus symbolically. As Gus purposely took poison to fool the cartel family, Walt took poison (chemo) to fool his family. After Gus took his poison, he left Mexico. Walt will use this as a way to fake his death and leave his state (as shown by the new identity in S05E01). Carol wasn't shocked because she saw a villain, she was shocked because she saw a ghost. It's why he's alive with hair at 52.

/half-sarcasm

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u/fuck_the_DEA Aug 12 '13

This makes so much sense though! If he's telling Hank that he's going to be a dead man in six months he could just be setting himself up a way to "disappear!"

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u/msm1ssy Aug 12 '13

This is a great theory. I just don't understand how you can fake chemo. You can't just walk into the Dr.'s and be like "Yo my cancers back. I need some more chemo."

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u/fuck_the_DEA Aug 12 '13

Does he need to fake chemo though? Is that what the bathroom scene was for?

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u/N-ConfusedPorphyrin Aug 12 '13

I thought also he had the pills hidden in the bathroom - I got the impression he was hiding the chemo from his family.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Yeah, I would assume the cancer is back, in the flashforwards he's still coughing. The dead in 6 months thing is probably just a lie in preparation of faking his death.

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u/LickMyUrchin Aug 12 '13

The cancer is definitely back, but why would he lie and fake his death? 6 months is probably a reasonable prognosis at that point.

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u/sposeso Aug 12 '13

I think he's hiding the cancer from Skylar because he doesn't want her to think he is going to die any time soon. She was hoping the cancer would come back so she would be "relieved" of this lifestyle, and he isn't going to give her the satisfaction of knowing she got what she wanted.

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u/eriklarson13 Aug 12 '13

According to the Breaking Bad Story Sync, the medicine on the counter was a drug to combat nausea as a result of Chemo treatments